Friday, September 11, 2015

Friday Freakout

It’s also interesting to note that Mel Brooks wasn’t the first filmmaker to satirize the pie fight—Charlie Chaplin’s film Behind the Screen,
which goes behind the scenes at a made-up film studio, also made fun of
the trope way back in 1916. Chaplin's film introduces a group of actors
practicing their pie tossing with a sarcastic intertitle that reads,
“The comedy department—Rehearsing a new idea.”

Bretagne, the last known living
search and rescue dog who worked at Ground Zero has been rewarded with a
dream ‘Sweet 16’ birthday.

The deserving pooch enjoyed a limousine ride, playtime at a river park and a special party during her day out in New York City.

The Bark Post and 1Hotels gave the golden retriever and her handler
and owner Denise Corliss a day to remember, 14 years after their vital
first deployment.

As members of Texas Task Force 1, Bretagne and Denise joined nearly
100 other search and rescue dogs to find and save people trapped in the
rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11.

“We were there to try to find
survivors and when our task force arrived in Ground Zero, I just
couldn’t believe the magnitude of it,” Denise told the publication in a
moving video. “But then I looked down at [Bretagne] and she was ready to
work.”